Faculty Profile

I have a combined work experience of around 26 years in industry and academia. I am a BE (Electronics & Telecommunication Engg) top ranker from Bombay University. I have worked in various capacities in Wipro, starting from customer support roles in Mumbai to hands-on software development to software Project lead in Bengaluru working with multiple teams and clients. This part of my career gave me extensive exposure to interfacing with clients, managing people in service roles and project teams, and international managers. It also exposed me to global work ethics and cultural differences in global teams.

After a successful stint in the software and hardware domain, I completed my MBA (PGSEM) from IIM Bangalore, while at Wipro, and then moved on to the function of Knowledge Management. I was instrumental in bringing in fresh ideas to evangelise KM in the sector assigned to me. During this functional role the thirst of asking questions and building research ideas grew on me and I decided to take the biggest decision of my life – to leave a successful and well paying job in the industry and become a full-time PhD (Fellow) student in OB&HRM at IIM Bangalore. This part of my career instilled a great desire to ask the right questions, to understand problems and to try and solve them through research. “Why humans behave the way they do” became a large part of my research agenda

After earning my PhD, I took on an academic avatar with a passion to continue on my research dreams and teach future leaders on the way. I joined IIM Udaipur in the OB&HRM area and successfully conducted my research through a number of international collaborations with area experts such as Prof Alex Haslam, Prof Rolf van Dick, Prof Nik Steffens, Prof Prithviraj Chattopadhyay, and Prof Jing Zhu. I also taught courses on micro and macro organizational behaviour to multiple batches of the MBA there. I also contributed in the institution building activities for the fledgling school. My paper on Newcomer Identification got published in June, 2017 in the Academy of Management Journal, a highly respected and coveted management journal with very high rejection rates! It is estimated (not verified) that there would probably be only a handful (if at all) researchers based in India to claim a publication in this journal. Continuing with this research passion, I have multiple ongoing projects in the area of Social Identity, Leadership and Newcomer Exclusion.

Since April 2018, I am with TAPMI in the HR & OB area. My mandate here is to continue to build on my research pursuits, contribute to institution building and the PGDM (HRM) program, as well as continue to develop great future leaders and researchers. I was the first chairperson of TAPMI’s PGDM (HRM) program in 2018. The program was set up with collaboration with SHRM for their professional global certification.

My passion (other than asking questions and seeking answers) is photography – using just my phone – of various natural and architectural wonders of the world and sharing them on my various social media accounts. I am also keen on technology – always trying out new apps and gizmos, when possible. I also love to read books, and watch movies/series related to sci-fi, crime and mystery. I survive because of my wife and two sons!

Core Organizational Behaviour; Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management; Social Identity Approach; HRM in the IT industry; Creativity; Women in Organizations

Social Identities in Organizations; Group Dynamics; Organizational Learning & Knowledge Management; Leadership; Women Entrepreneurs.

Steffens, N. K., Tatachari, S., Haslam, S. A., Wilson-Lemoine, J. E., Maskor, M., van Dick, R., Kratzer, B. E., Christensen, J., & Kerschreiter, R. (2024). Introducing and validating a single-item measure of identity leadership: The visual identity leadership scale (VILS). British Journal of Social Psychology, 00, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12744

Steffens, N. K., Greenaway, K. H., Moore, S., Munt, K. A., Grundmann, F., Haslam, S. A., Jetten, J., Postmes, T., Skorich, D. P., & Tatachari, S. (2024). Meta-identification: Perceptions of others’ group identification shape group life. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 341–363. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3014

Monzani, L., Bibic, K., Haslam, S. A.,…Tatachari, S.,… van Dick, R. (2024). Political leaders’ identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality. Political Psychology, 00, 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12952

Buchanan, E.M., Lewis, S.C., Paris, B. et al. The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Nature Scientific Data 10, 87 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7

Bracht, E. M., Monzani, L., Boer, D., Haslam, S. A., Kerschreiter, R.,… Tatachari, S., … & van Dick, R. (in press). Innovation across cultures: Connecting leadership, identification, and creative behavior in organizations. Applied Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12381

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 22(119).

Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., …Tatachari, S., … &Mazidi, M. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgments in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern, and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 880–895.

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C. A., Miller, J. K., Uusberg, A., …Tatachari, S….. Moshontz, H. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(8), 1089-1110.

van Dick, R., Cordes, B. L., Lemoine, J. E., Steffens, N. K., Haslam, S. A., … Tatachari, S…. Kerschreiter, R. (2021). Identity leadership, employee burnout and the mediating role of team identification: Evidence from the global identity leadership development project. Int J of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22).

Van Dick, R., Kerschreiter, R., Steffens, N., Akfirat, S.A., Avanzi, L., Dumont, K., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., Gießner, S., Gonzales, R., Kark, R., Lemoine, J., Lipponen, J., Markovits, Y., Monzani, L., Orosz, G., Pandey, D., Roland-Lévy, C., Schuh, S., Sekiguchi, T., Song, L.J., Stouten, J., Tatachari, S., Valdenegro, D., van Bunderen, L., Vörös, V., Wong, S.I., Zhang, X.-a. & Haslam, S.A. (2018). Identity leadership going global: Results from an international validation study of the Identity Leadership Inventory. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 91(4), 697-728.

Zhu, J., Tatachari, S., & Chattopadhyay, P. (2017). Newcomer Identification: Trends, antecedents, and consequences. (Shared first-authorship). Academy of Management Journal, 60(3), 855-879.

Tatachari S. Amisha Gupta’s First Year at Work (2014). Ivey Publishing, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation. (https://www.iveycases.com/ProductView.aspx?id=62128)

Paul, H., and Tatachari, S. (2022). Student “work group” not working. The Case Journal. 18(4), 561-581

Tatachari, S. (2020). Use of social media in Indian MBA classes: Facebook Groups in a course on organizational behaviour. In S. Allen, K. Grower, & D.K. Allen (Eds). Handbook of Teaching with Technology in Management, Leadership, and Business (pp. 303-311). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Tatachari, S., Manikandan, K. S., & Gunta, S. (2014). A Synthesis of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management Literatures. In M. Chilton, & J. Bloodgood (Eds.) Knowledge Management and Competitive Advantage: Issues and Potential Solutions (pp. 122-147). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.